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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

More Challenges!

I've decided to join a couple more challenges for the summer, just to keep life interesting. :)

First, the Summer Reading Challenge. I've been thinking about what I want to do with this one (it's completely open-ended), and I've finally decided to do another classics challenge. I really enjoyed the earlier one, so I thought it'd be nice to bring them back into my life.

The other challenge is the Summer Mystery Reading Challenge. The goal is to read 6 mysteries over the summer, but there's a twist: you have to read all new authors! I figure this will be a good way to find some new favourites; you can never have too many mysteries. :)

The RulesIf on a winter's night a traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Last Kabbalist of Lisbon by Richard ZimlerThe Moor's Last Sigh by Salman RushdieDaughter of Fortune by Isabel AllendeSnow Flower's Secret Fan by Lisa SeeCry, the Beloved Country by Alan PatonBliss and Other Stories by Katherine MansfieldEmbers by Sándor MáraiWar of the Saints by Jorge AmadoIn the Eye of the Sun by Ahdaf SoueifTrain to Pakistan by Kushwant Singh

The RulesReviews by all ParticipantsThe House Next Door by Anne Rivers SiddonsSeven Gothic Tales by Isak DinesenSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyThe Ghost Writer by John HarwoodThe Rest Falls Away by Colleen GleasonRises the Night by Colleen GleasonMarked by P.C. and Kristin CastShort Story Sunday: Witches' Brew, Many Happy Returns

The RulesChallenge BlogThe Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne JewettThe Last September by Elizabeth BowenThe Wisdom of Father Brown by G.K. ChestertonThe Small Room by May SartonRob Roy by Walter Scott

The RulesChallenge BlogBel Canto by Ann PatchettA Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis PetersThat Night by Alice McDermottKim by Rudyard KiplingThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Stolen Child by Keith Donahue

The RulesThe Little Country by Charles de LintLost in a Good Book Jasper FfordeRoad Rage by Ruth Rendell

America's Secret War by George FriedmanWaiting for Daisy by Peggy OrensteinDoes America Need a Foreign Policy? by Henry KissingerSpook by Mary RoachA Gentle Madness by Nicholas BasbanesHow Reading Changed My Life by Anna QuindlenDeath at the Priory by James RuddickFast Food Nation by Eric Scholsser

Stiff by Mary Roach

The Persian Puzzle by Kenneth PollackReason for Hope by Jane Goodall

A History of Reading by Alberto ManguelTrue Notebooks by Mark SalzmanSo Many Books, So Little Time by Sara NelsonThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

Galileo's Daughter by Dava SobelDress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David SedarisNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichJane Austen: Her Life and Letters by William Austen-LeighThe Supreme Court by Jeffrey RosenThe Ancestor's Tale by Richard DawkinsConfessions of an Economic Hitman by John PerkinsThe Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellWild Swans by Jun ChangA Problem From Hell by Samantha PowersAssassin's Gate by George PackerThe Soul of Iran by Afshin MolaviThe Orchid Thief by Susan OrleanJoan of Arc by Pernoud and ClinSketches From a Life by George KennanA Cold Case by Philip GourevitchThe Modular Brain by Richard Restak